Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Let developers do "off the board" work
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When sprints are well planned and sustainably paced, it's natural to have developers who have finished all of their committed backlog it...
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Penny-wise and Pound-foolish
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What a time to be a software developer! I'm always amazed that even in an industry with high salaries and intense competition for talent...
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Ron Jeffries on Prediction
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It is common practice to make a list of essential features, think about them for a while, and then decide that they define the next release ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Bring Engineers Problems, Not Solutions
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I read a great article posted to Hacker News this week called Effective Communication With Software Engineers by Simón Muñoz. He made som...
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Finish Things
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In Lean , there's a lot of talk about reducing work in progress (WIP). It's interesting to me that even though it seems that Lean c...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Challenging the Pull Request Orthodoxy
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A thread showed up in my Twitter feed the other day from Dragan Stepanović about the low efficiency of pull requests for small changes and...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Methodologies Are Descriptive, Not Prescriptive
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In all my years in the software industry, I've never seen a team where I would say the methodology they professed to use actually matter...
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